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Asian Premiere

World Cinema

If Only Everyone
  • Natalia BELYAUSKENE
  • Armenia
  • 2012
  • 98min

A beautiful girl named Sasha from Russia comes to Armenia. Born between Russian father and Armenian mother, Sasha is searching for the grave of her father who died in the Karabakh ...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

All Apologies
  • Emily TANG
  • China
  • 2012
  • 88min

A child is dead. Having snuck onto a neighbor’s truck, the child does not survive an accident the truck is subsequently involved in. But the neighbor does. The third film from Chin...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Soegija
  • Garin NUGROHO
  • Indonesia
  • 2012
  • 110min

, directed by Indonesian master Garin Nugroho, is an epic historical drama depicting the country’s years of turbulence. Based on the journals of national hero Albertus Soe...

World Premiere

Wide Angle

Convenience
  • Sam MCKEITH,Tom MCKEITH
  • Australia
  • 2012
  • 15min

Eccentric short film, “Convenience” is set at a remote gas station and tells the enigmatic tale of a very inconvenient event. Iconic Australian indie actor, David Field plays a sho...

Asian Premiere

World Cinema

Beyond the Hills
  • Cristian MUNGIU
  • Romania,France
  • 2012
  • 150min

Inspired by the non-fiction novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran. Cristian Mungiu, Palme d’Or winner for his film, <4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days> (2009), returns with the story of two...

  • 칸영화제 여우주연상
World Premiere

Wide Angle

My Name Is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns
  • Kamran HEIDARI
  • Iran
  • 2012
  • 65min

Negahdar Jamali has been making western films in Iran for 35 years. Not screened in normal theaters, and with few?or no?sponsors let alone producers, his films are made and watched...

Asian Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Beijing Flickers
  • Yuan ZHANG
  • China
  • 2012
  • 96min

is a story of the despair among Beijing’s youth. San Bao is a poor young man who stops speaking after his girlfriend dumps him for a wealthy married man. He suff...

Asian Premiere

Gala Presentation

Rhino Season
  • Bahman GHOBADI
  • Iraq,Turkey
  • 2012
  • 93min

is the latest film of the director Bahman Ghobadi who had filmed only on Kurds until he left Iran, because no more filming is possible there and nested in Turkey to ...

International Premiere

Open Cinema

Pinocchio
  • Enzo D′ALÒ
  • Italy,Luxembourg,Belgium,France
  • 2012
  • 80min

Geppetto, a lonely woodcarver, brings to life ? literally ? a wooden puppet he names Pinocchio. This mischievous boy skips classes and instead undertakes a variety of exciting adve...

  • 베니스영화제 베니스데이즈
International Premiere

New Currents

Apparition
  • Vincent SANDOVAL
  • Philippines
  • 2012
  • 87min

This film about religion, courage and guilt unfolds in 1971 when Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos’ power was at its peak. New recruit Sister Lourdes and Sister Ruth forge a cl...

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Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea